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America Eats For Israel – May 1, 2012

Posted by afeinstein | 30 April 2012 | No Comments
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Eat at any of the participating restaurants on Monday May 1st, and they will donate 10% of their entire day’s gross proceeds to Meir Panim, an Israeli charity that works to eliminate poverty among children, families, Holocaust survivors, and the disabled. Meir Panim served over a million meals to Israelis in need in 2010 and [...]

Fuchs Mizrachi holds ceremonies for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut

Posted by afeinstein | 26 April 2012 | No Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) About 800 people came to the Yom Hazikaron (Day of Remembrance) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) ceremonies at Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood Wednesday evening (April 25). The program, open to the entire Jewish community, aimed to bring the love of Israel to Jewish youth. Full Story >>

Google Israel Streetview Now Online

Posted by afeinstein | 20 April 2012 | No Comments
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Google’s Street View in Israel is currently online now. The project, which features 3-D images of the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and other attractions in Israel such as the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth and the Ramon Crater,  Israel’s business daily Globes reported. Israel’s Justice Ministry in approving the project set [...]

Reminder: Check for Israeli Produce Arriving in Local Stores

Posted by afeinstein | 02 January 2012 | No Comments
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Just a reminder to check where your produce is coming from. Whole Foods’s latest shipment of organic red peppers is from Israel. This time of year, it’s especially important to check where your fruits and vegetables were grown. The OU has a helpful article explaining how to separate terumos and maaseros.

High court hears passport case of former Cleveland family

Posted by afeinstein | 13 November 2011 | No Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky was born in 2002 in Shaare Zedek hospital in western Jerusalem. He wants his U.S. passport to say he was born in Israel, an option Congress allowed when it passed a law directing the State Department to record the birthplace of Jerusalem-born Americans as Israel, if so requested. Full [...]

Gedolei HaDor Call For Tefilos Due To The Situation In Eretz Yisrael

Posted by afeinstein | 30 October 2011 | 1 Comment
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A letter was circulated on erev Shabbos with the signatures of a number of Gedolei Yisrael Shlita, calling upon Am Yisrael to increase tefilos due to the recent tragedies that have befallen Am Yisrael. Signatories include HaGaon HaRav Elyashiv Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Shteinman Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Wosner Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Kanievsky Shlita and the Belzer [...]

Kent State U prof shouts ‘Death to Israel’ before walking out

Posted by afeinstein | 27 October 2011 | 3 Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) Before Kent State University history professor Julio Pino walked out during an Oct. 25 program by Ishmael Khaldi, former deputy consul general at the Israel Consulate in San Francisco, he was passing out anti-Israel material. “Dr. Pino was standing in the back of the auditorium and during the presentation had been handing [...]

Look for Israeli Pomegranates and Dates possibly available in our stores

Posted by afeinstein | 27 September 2011 | No Comments
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  (This a notice for Toronto but it may be a good idea to watch out in Cleveland too!) Please be advised that there are Pomegranates and Dates available at Supermarkets in Toronto from Israel. These fruits are subject to the laws of Terumos and Maaseros such that Terumos and Maaseros must be taken before [...]

David Makovsky and Ghaith Al-Omari Presentation: Israelis and Palestinians-The Possibilities for Peace

Posted by afeinstein | 20 September 2011 | No Comments
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A time to act for Israel

Posted by afeinstein | 14 September 2011 | No Comments
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With threats of war against our people in Eretz Yisroel emanating from in and about Artzeinu HaKedosha, we all know and realize that we are all one, and that the threat is to and upon us all.  There seem to be so many things to be concerned about that on one hand make it clearer [...]

UPDATE: Ohio-Israel trade office to stay open, for now

Posted by afeinstein | 23 August 2011 | No Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) (See previous related article here) Ohio’s trade office within Israel is remaining open, at least for now. The Ohio Department of Development, which earlier this month reported it was considering closing all of the state’s trade offices throughout the world, said those entities will be reassessed before a final decision is made. [...]

Time to work together

Posted by afeinstein | 19 August 2011 | No Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) Next month, the Palestinian Authority leadership will seek United Nations’ recognition of a unilaterally declared independent (UDI) Palestinian state – probably along the 1967 borders (1949 armistice lines) and also including the “right of return.” But today, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, the local chapters of the ADL and AJC, and others [...]

State closes Ohio-Israel trade office

Posted by afeinstein | 11 August 2011 | No Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) The Ohio Department of Development is closing its trade office within Israel as part of cuts being made throughout its global markets division, director Christiane Schmenk said this week. The two-person Ohio-Israel trade office worked with Israeli businesses that were interested in relocating to the state. Full Story >>

Boycott Scotch Whisky

Posted by afeinstein | 23 June 2011 | No Comments
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In response to a Scottish Highlands municipal council decision to boycott Israeli goods a counter boycott has been created. Text below is excerpted from their site. The Global Whisky Counter-boycott is directed at the West Dunbartonshire Council in Scotland, which is boycotting Israel. Their boycott which extends to all products from Israel includes a ban [...]

Approximately 1,000 Expected at Free, Family-friendly Community-wide Celebration of Israel’s 63rd Anniversary

Posted by afeinstein | 09 May 2011 | No Comments
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(Sponsored by community institutions across the Jewish spectrum. Check to see if this event is right for your family.) WHAT: The evening begins with Yom Hazikaron (6:00 – 6:35 p.m.), or Day of Remembrance, a memorial ceremony for those who lost their lives protecting the State of Israel, as well as in terrorist attacks. Yom [...]

Interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu

Posted by afeinstein | 05 April 2011 | No Comments
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Channel 2 and YouTube bring you a special interview with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, in which people from all around the world ask questions about the peace process, unrest in the Middle East, and more. Students from Fuchs-Mizrachi ask their own question at approximately 10:10. (Video below, not from a “frum” source)

Israel Springs Forward an Hour

Posted by afeinstein | 03 April 2011 | No Comments
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Israel changed its clocks on Erev Shabbos for daylight saving time. At 2 a.m. on Friday, Israel sprang forward one hour to 3 a.m. Currently, Israel is seven hours ahead of our time zone (EST). Israel will once again fall back an hour to standard time on October 2, 2011.

Aish: tour guide for Jewish journeys

Posted by afeinstein | 03 April 2011 | No Comments
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(Cleveland Jewish News) Two of Pam Leikin’s friends invited her to go to with them to Israel. She said no. “I didn’t have much of a connection to Israel. It was just this place I heard about with all this conflict and danger,” the Beachwood resident said. But Leikin had never traveled out of the [...]

Mental trauma concerns father of bombing victim

Posted by afeinstein | 01 April 2011 | 1 Comment
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(Cleveland Jewish News) Jerusalem bombing victim Leah Green is doing very well considering her “miraculous escape from serious injury,” her father Dr. Rodney Green said. The force of the March 23 explosion threw the 2010 Mosdos Ohr HaTorah graduate into the air. Her leg caught fire and she put out the flames with her hands. [...]